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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 4: 1829-1830: Aet. 22-23. (search)
of any recent investigation he had made. If he found himself understood by his listeners he was satisfied, and cared for no farther publication of his researches. I could enumerate many works of masters in our science, which had no other foundation at the outset than these inspiriting conversations. No one has borne warmer testimony to the influence Dollinger has had in this indirect way on the progress of our science than the investigator I have already mentioned as his greatest pupil,—von Baer. In the introduction to his work on embryology he gratefully acknowledges his debt to his old teacher. Among the most fascinating of our professors was Oken. A master in the art of teaching, he exercised an almost irresistible influence over his students. Constructing the universe out of his own brain, deducing from a priori conceptions all the relations of the three kingdoms into which he divided all living beings, classifying the animals as if by magic, in accordance with an analog
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
s. 287; first permanent station, 298. Amalgamation, 600, 609, 612, 616. Amazons, the, 630, 636, 640, 646. America, native races of, 581. America, South, native races of, 643. American forests, 439. Ancud, 748. Anderson, John, 767. Anderson School of Natural History, 768; opening, 771. Anthony, J. G., 679. Asterolepis, 473. Australian race, 500. Austrian custom-house officers, 87. B. Bache, A. D. , 422, 455, 458, 480, 482, 485. Bachelor's Peak, 721. Baer, 150. Bailey, Professor, 426. Baird, S. F. 424. Balanus, 469. Bancroft, George, 645. Barbados, 703. Barnard, J. M , 680. Beaumont, Elie de, aids Agassiz with a collection of fossil fishes, 176; at the Helvetic Association at Neuchatel, 264. Berlin, University of, quoted, 569. Beroids, 489. Bibb, U. S. Coast Survey steamer, 453, 671. Bibliographia Zoologica, 335. Bienne, college at, 6, 7. Bischoff, 29. Blake, J. H., 691. Bombinator obstetricans, observati